No-No Becomes "Oh No" For Dodgers

DuranLA#Dodgers are perfectly fine. Fans don’t need to worry. But blaming Eric Collins? Sureabout 1 hour ago from twidroid

Well, it’s better we lose like this September 23 than OCTOBER 23.

and notched his 8th loss. Haha!

oh well i guess
nats can certainly use some confidence these days haha
phillies, and cards lost
rockies losing 6-2
this is grrrrrrrrreat

Should you say “Guzman scampered home from second with the go-ahead run”? That’s the weirdest part.

You’d think one of them would be semi-covering 2nd or 3rd to catch anybody on any pick off attempt.

and has to miss the rest of the year, it will be the 3rd year in a row he has not been able to finish the season. How strange is that?

That’s terrible- and ironic- news about Hudson, especially given how Torre had been “resting” him lately, and when he finally plays, look what happens. But on a lighter note, when I heard in the car about Hudson’s errant throw, all I could think was, “Oh boy. I can’t imagine what meercatjohn is writing now!” :)

And though I didn’t see the game, from the sound of it, it seems he pitched great. (I’ll watch the highlights, and lowlights, later.) I can’t believe there are people who have still made up their mind that Garland should be the #4 starter over Billingsley! Again, this is why you can’t rely solely on stats. Just looking at their numbers, there’s not too much difference. But when they both are at, or even near their best, there’s no contest. The #4 starting position is far from settled, but as far as I’m concerned, it’s Billingsley’s to lose, and one bad pitch to a very good hitter doesn’t settle the argument, by any means.

As for the game itself, shit happens in a 162 game season- sometimes 4 or 5 times in one night. natfan88 summed it up best on mlb.com: “Nats fan here — wow, maybe its our ballpark. Man, you guys played like us tonight!”

Slackers.

Lidge blew ANOTHER save?! Unreal!

if randy wolf has more value in WAR than jorge de la rosa this year

wolf= 3.3

de la rosa = 3.5

wow i thought for sure wolf was far better

In addition to Hudson picking up another $40k tonight with 4 PA (although those final 33 will be hard to achieve), Ethier got PA #650 to achieve his final PA incentive of $50k, to bring his final salary to $3.2m.

http://www.truebluela.com/2009/1/14/720656/dodger-payroll#ethier

Except he said ‘ball in play’.

Really, that’s one stat the main stream media should and will embrace, since its measuring what they’re always advocating, putting the ball in place.

At least going in the right direction, I’ll take that over any victory.

It looks like we are very lucky to have Wolf, Kersh, Kuroda, and now Bills too on the way back after all being out recently.

If I were commissioner, my first act would be to unilaterally move Dunn to the American league. Hopefully O-Dog is alright, I know he’s paranoid about the wrist, but he should be all right, but looks like Belliard will continue to get plenty of playing time.

http://multimedia.dodgers.com/audio/09_september/23%20September%20Orlando%20Hudson%20postgame%20raw%20.mp3

4:05 PM PST?

Here are the first and third paragraphs (emphasis mine):

WASHINGTON (AP)—Andre Ethier(notes) booted pinch-hitter Pete Orr’s(notes) fly to right field in the ninth inning, allowing Justin Maxwell(notes) to score, and the Washington Nationals averted their 100th loss of the season with a 5-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday night.
Orr, who was 2 for 13 as a pinch hitter, hit a fly to medium right and the ball bounced off the Ethier’s glove as he backtracked and Maxwell scored. Orr was credited with a sacrifice fly and Ethier was given an error on the play.

If you know he backtracked, then you know that catch or drop is meaningless. Lead with Pete Orr driving home the winning run with a sac fly, and mention the non-catch as an aside.

Wire service stories don’t even run with writer’s names, so they are less credible than blogs, right?

here’s hoping bell doesn’t pull a lidge!!

Visibly relieved, Hudson joked with reporters how he tripped over the right leg of first baseman Adam Dunn, his former teammate in Arizona.

“He’s not used to playing first base,” Hudson said, laughing. “Instead of putting his foot, he decided to put his whole leg on the bag, man. Unbelievable. He came over to apologize. I said, ’Dunn, how are you going to put your whole leg, your big donkey leg, on the top of the bag?”

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2009/09/dodgers-hudson-listed-as-daytoday-wrist-injury-considered-minor.html

And I sat in left field, three seats from the foul pole. Charlie Haeger signed a ball for a kid. Juan Pierre had his socks down an hour before game time. Broxton and Mota were running together. Kuo casually caught a couple balls from batting practice, but thankfully nowhere near the track.

In addition to that one between Manny and Kemp, Willy Harris screwed up a routine fly that bounced in front of him. On both of them, it looked like the ball was blown just slightly off, because I thought Kemp and Harris each had their ball.

The Hudson throw and failure to score with a tie game, nobody out and the bases loaded told the story of the game. That, and Torre sticking with McDonald (I would have gone with Tron if not Broxton). The guy he walked before Orr was 1 for 21 on the year, and it looked like he had to be told that he was supposed to go to first base, like he had never been there before. At that point, you have to wonder a bit, and you’re really thinking you want a K there. And I was looking forward to free baseball.

Billingsley recovered well from being behind in the count a couple times, but walking 4 in 6 innings doesn’t help. Still a quality start. I think I speak for many when I say I can’t wait to see Dodger Blues on tonight’s game.

and marquis looked worse. the cards had nothing to say with the bat. these are good things.

let’s just hope tonight’s many brain farts can be safely filed under ‘getting it out of their system’.

“The Nats took advantage of that lapse, scoring the winning run with one out as Justin Maxwell came home on a sacrifice fly to right field by Pete Orr.”

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090923&content_id=7120170&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

I agree.